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...they had also admired conservative, 60-year-old "Calculatin' Coke." Coke looked and acted like "Mister Texas." As a youth, he had studied by the light of a campfire, and in the years since, he had been a wagon freighter, merchant, attorney, bank president, rancher. He had been in politics 34 years, was the only man who had been twice named Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. This summer, one of Coke's supporters urged him to get a helicopter, too. Said Coke: "No thanks, I'll keep my campaign down to earth...
...cost to build a modern opera house and restage the entire repertory? Billy's guess: $20,000,000. His proposed test question for every Met production: "Will it interest a man in the first mezzanine who saw High Button Shoes last night and is going to see Mister Roberts tomorrow night...
...last week Mister Crump was up to his bushy eyebrows in a slugging match. A smart Democrat threatened to break the grip Ed Crump has held on Tennessee's U.S. Senators for the last 15 years.* The man who dared the Boss's revivalist anger and self-righteous vituperation was big (6 ft. 3 in.) Yale-trained Estes Kefauver of Chattanooga, a hard-working Congressman with a prolabor, New Dealish record. "Red Pet Coon." Able, 44-year-old Estes Kefauver jumped into the senatorial primary fight last winter when Mister Crump gave the boot to servile Senator...
...Broadway's smash hit picturing a shipload of men worn down by lack of change, lack of women, lack of war is: 1. Red Peppers. 2. Make Mine Manhattan. 3. Shore Leave. 4. Angel in the Lights. 5. Mister Roberts...
Saroyan's Heir. But there were some pretty substantial new plays, true though it was that many of them (Mister Roberts, Command Decision, The Heiress) had previously been books. And there was, at last, what almost everybody regarded as a substantial young playwright: Tennessee Williams, whose Streetcar Named Desire won both the Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize-a feat achieved only once before, by William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life...